Dominic Cummings travelled from London to Durham to self isolate

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Seen running out of Downing Street
Went to self isolate with his wife in Durham with his parents when he had symptoms
Seems he had his family with him
He stayed with his wife and his parents looked after the children

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52779356

One rule for us, one rule for him

He has to go.

He had symptoms, he drove across the country to stay elsewhere, he made elderly parents provide childcare when they must be quite old and didn't his uncle also die with Covid in hospital around this time? He knew he could get caught and knew how damaging that could be to the messaging but still did it.

I agree with Lilac that he will get some other plum position, unfortunately that happens but he must leave this one.

I don't like this expression but what a shitshow.

Yeah I saw the video of him scurrying at the time.

I didn't even know he had returned mid April as he'd been so absent I genuinely wondered whether he had got quite ill cos no sign of him.

Laura Kuenssberg jumping in to his defence with unseemly haste, questioning another journalists story and quoting "a source" aka him, is as big a story, or should be.

I'm a massive BBC fan, but this supposed political editor needs to go.

Unless you think recycling WhatsApp messages from your "source" without questioning their validity is actual journalism.

@Inkpaperstars his uncle died in a London hospital of/with Covid on 5 April, the same day he was allegedly dancing to ABBA with his son in his parents’ garden. It was also the day the PM was admitted to hospital.

What an arrogant twat he is.

I didn't know that lark. About his uncle.

Ok this might get deleted but he sounds like a psychopath or something. Exposing your own parents to this when your own uncle has just died of it is way not normal behaviour.

Right, thanks Lark, crikey.

Him and his wife wrote heartfelt stories about their Covid experiences, emerging from isolation into London. No mention of Durham whatsoever.

And No 10 must have know where they were.

The arrogance of his actions is astounding.
@ILikeSardines you summed it up perfectly with your post at 1.25am.
The man is utterly despicable and clearly he should have no alternative but to resign. Will that happen.... ?

Our relative, a dr, was seriously ill with this whilst her husband, also a dr, was ill too.

They have a four, eight and 11 year old.

They looked after them and maintained hygiene and distancing.

But Cummings needs childcare for one four year old!?

Cummings somehow drove 300 miles despite his wife writing in the spectator that he was bed bound got 10 days at this time. Must have got petrol, taken four year old to a loo.

Then stayed with parents. His lie is for childcare. One kid! Are you kidding me! The wife had mild symptoms! Are they too good to care for kids while Unwell like the rest of us.

He said he distanced in a separate building but he was spotted twice with child during supposed isolation, when he was still symptomatic and during the 10 days his wife claims he couldn’t get out of bed.

He takes us for fools. Show him we aren’t!

The scariest thing for me in all of this, is that Cummings found someone to procreate with him.

On the plus side at least he's not a total hypocrite and his belief that the deaths of older people don't matter includes his own family!

YY @Mumoftwo0357 Ten years ago me and a former friend drove from Essex to York for a wedding.

Had to stop for a pee twice at services. ( i have an overactive bladder so purposely drank fuck all the day before) so there is no way they didnt stop somewhere.

What a knobber

If he was spotted by neighbours dancing to ABBA in the garden surely word would have got out............at least around Durham.

His minions are trying to spin it that it was within the rules because you're allowed to leave home to provide care children. Only unfortunately they don't allow that when you're infection. And he wasn't leaving home to provide care, but to get someone else to do it. And he has a nanny. And, on his wife's own public account, she wasn't that ill so could have done what the rest of us do when we feel off but have small children, i.e. coped.

Argh, infectious, not infection.

Egghead68 things often come out weeks after the event. Neil Ferguson’s alleged transgressions were on 30 March and 8 April; the Telegraph broke the story on 5 May.

@LarkDescending precisely. The Ferguson story seemed to be timed to draw attention/headlines away from the “highest in Europe” death figures.

Trying to drum up some outrage and I just can't find any. Wrong, shouldn't have done it, blah blah blah. Next

Dominic Cummings? The same man Gove used to employ at Policy Exchange?

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This guy is not a pleb, unlike the rest of us
www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/11/genetics-teaching-gove-adviser

The guy is teflon, he will stay.

I couldn't care less. He certainly doesn't deserve the level of hatred on this thread.

He’s not going anywhere, is he? Vile man

Classic Dom. I’ve no doubt this will all get spun away nicely.

The advice at the time was clear: if you’re symptomatic, you stay the fuck put, and you certainly don’t go and stay with your (presumably over 70 year old?) parents.

If either he or his wife were well enough to drive 250 miles, they were well enough to look after their kid.

If people are keen to put the boot in, well- you reap what you sow, Dom. Maybe if you weren’t so loathsome, people would give you the benefit of the doubt, but there you go.

By the looks of it they wrote an article specifically referring to their London home as the setting for self isolation. Who knows where the lies begin and end, but given that he was ill, and that vulnerable people were involved, this is much worst than the Scottish advisor or Ferguson. If he doesn't go, it is a joke. it will be the final straw for many people who have been trying to take this govt messaging seriously.